splatter
splatter
Definition
splat·ter (splat′ər)
splatter
Usage Examples
Object
- paint: You can give older children toothbrushes to splatter paint or drinking straws to blow paint about on a page.
- blood: Secondly is a murder scene where a woman, fleeing the machete wielding killer, splatters blood across a bright white wall.
- movie: Their drummer, Anton the Impaler, describes their sound as " the sonic equivalent of a ' 70s splatter movie.
- film: You'll be having your favorite beach babes, football teams or films splattered across your pocket PC in no time.
- effect: Tom Rutter provides the impressive splatter effects which are used just enough to impress without falling into gratuitous silliness.
- wall: Then a hail of gunfire splattered the wall behind him.
Preposition: on
- wall: The court heard how he had left blood splattered on the kitchen walls, floor and utensils.
- ground: Trouble is, with October away an ' the last leaves splattered on the ground, the warm weather tends to vanish.
Modifying Another Word
- everywhere: The cover over the tank did not close properly when the coil was in place, so fluid could splatter everywhere.
- all: Better to use a low output Tesla coil, which generates high voltage splattered all over the RF spectrum.
- liberally: Techies are also to blame with CVs being liberally splattered with teh agile word without any actual experience.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: A lot of blood gets splattered around without anyone getting too badly hurt or taking too much offense.
- out: If not, the nozzle becomes blocked, and the slip can splatter out when extra pressure is applied.
Preposition: in
- blood: The confession of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant at Auschwitz, is literally splattered in blood.
Preposition: of
- blood: Barry had a tiny splatter of blood on his face.
- paint: My best work was " Rainy Day At The Seaside, " a random splattering of paint over paper.
Preposition: with
- blood: Each victim had been stabbed 15 to 20 times, leaving the walls of the small monk's chamber splattered with blood.
- paint: The latest news says the Italian Embassy was splattered with red paint a couple of days later.
- mud: Even on the bus, I could see the scratches and tired designs splattered with mud.
Preposition: across
- screen: Instead, if you are hit by an ax, or are shot, you get a blood splatter across the screen.
Browse dictionary entries near splatter
- splat
- splashy
- splashdown
- splashboard
- splash guard
- splash
- splanchnology
- splanchno-
- splanchnic
- spiv
- splay
- splayed
- splayfoot
- spleen
- spleenful
- spleenwort
- splen-
- splendent
- splendid
- splendidly
